a) Billy’s mother had five children. The first was gets off and a man gets on.

ts on. At the third stop, two

named Lala, the second was named Lele, the children get on. The bus is blue and it’s raining

third was named Lili, the fourth was named Lolo. outside in December. What colour is the bus

What was the fifth child named? driver’s hair?

b) Choose the correct sentence: “The yolk of the l) There are three houses. One is red, one is blue

egg is white” or “the yolk of the egg is white.” and one is white. If the red house is to the left of

the house in the middle, and the blue house is to

c) It’s as light as a feather, but the strongest
the right of the house in the middle, where’s the
person can’t hold it for more than five minutes.
white house?
What is it?

m) It’s at the center of gravity and you can find it

d) The more there is, the less you see. What is it?
in Venus, but not Mars. What is it?

e) What gets more wet while it dries?

n) What goes on four feet in the morning, two in

f) You can find it in Mercury, Earth, Mars, Jupiter the afternoon and three in the evening?  

and Saturn, but not in Venus or Neptune. What is

o) What travels faster: heat or cold?
it?

p) A man was walking in the rain in the middle of

g) It likes food, but water kills it. What is it?
nowhere without a coat or an umbrella. He got

h) What’s full of holes but can still hold water? soaked, but not a single hair on his head was wet.

How can this be?

i) Which is heavier, a pound of feathers or a

pound of rocks? q) A cowboy rode into town on Friday. He stayed

in town for three days and rode back out on

j) How far can a dog run into the woods?
Friday. How is this possible?

k) You’re driving a city bus. At the first stop, three

women get on. At the second stop, one woman

Answers

a)  Billy

b)  Neither. Egg yolks are yellow, not white!

c)  Breath

d)  Fog

e)  A towel

f)  The letter “R”

g)  Fire

h)  A sponge

i)  Neither. Both weigh a pound!

j)  Halfway. Once it reaches halfway, it’s running  out  of the woods.

k)  Whatever colour your hair is. Remember, you’re driving the bus!

l)  In Washington, D.C.

m)  The letter “V”

n)  A human. The times of day represent stages of human life. At the beginning of life, a baby crawls on four

“feet.” As a person gets older, they walk on two feet. Later in life, a person will walk on three “feet” (two

feet, plus a cane to help them walk).

o)  Heat travels faster because you can catch a cold!

p)  He was bald.

q)  The horse’s name was Friday.